Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:24:51 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: multimounting cdroms ??? |
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Brian Poole wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, German Jose Gomez Garcia wrote: > > > It's normal than a cdrom can be mounted more than once? I mean, > > any user can remount a cdrom using for example mount /cdrom, and it seems > > to keep cound of the times you mounted it, because you cannot eject it > > until you have umounted it the same number of times. > > yes. multiple mount support is a feature, not a bug. was added a bit back, > search the lkml archive for the discussion about a month or two ago. > > as for any user, well, last I checked thats only if you allow > users to mount the cdrom.
Only one problem though.
A user can mount the same filesystem multiple times on the same mountpoint, but will be unable to umount the filesystem again ...
umount -f does the trick, but is restricted to root
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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